I am sorry to have piggybacked on Oliver D's marvelous saga about the skunk family. I loved it! I am very new, was very upset about my losses and could not figure out how to start my own thread. And I needed help. Thank you, Mary and others for your generous responses.i did figure out how to...
Well this one has not moved on, it came back and killed another chicken while I was in the house. I moved them all, that is the ones that are left, to their winter quarters which has a 6 or 7 foot fence. I plan to put a hot wire at the top. I hope that will stop the &@$%#£¥.
Seems strange to me too. The eggs were still there, it/they got into the house thru the small door, so not so big. And it was not done for food, but for fun? Mid day too.
I have had chickens in this yard for about 15 years. Nothing like this has happened. Raccoons havekilled for food. I do live...
I just found 13dead chickens! Bodies fairly intact, lots of feathers around. The heads were on and the skin was barely torn. My fence is over 4.5 feet, no holes, they can not dig under... what would do this?